Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-27
zee 'e ,eulirg OF tho day,

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IN ~ lo,d, ind smoke. and fire.
H. saw them mount through the cloudy riffs,
S,arr. au,i yet higher;
Esn back DER tho torn and corse-strewr
eloL,:d
suLuliy retire,
.nt and blasted AMI broken,
Slaughter everywhere,
!, tol What tho bravo and erring
lHill do and dare.
Lh ii,. from tho hill the grand CID Flag
Ipia,v ont IL Freedoms air!
3riicdUo LOGGER.
The Wounds We Received.
IN tie coulso of my whole experience
[,h the effects of battles, two things were
|.cl,v impressed upon me: First, that
(me men were killed by an injury that
ksmcd trivial; second, that others sur
fyel the most desperate wounds. l will
I,s;a by some illustrations of this.
IS my ;e.iment approached our lines n.
for, hudson, several shells from the enc
! ,y's work.; produced some confusion.
EheY i: was over enc of the men was re-
I,sei wounded by the accidental" dis
barge OF his own musket. The ball had
assgi through his great toe. The tim
Ind pltce OF This injury ut once suggested
ke t4Iiei that here wns coward who had
kten ionaily MANNED himself. The sur
|eou, took him aside on the grass, took OF
lis shoe aad Stocking, and, after examining
be ~unnl, told him that his toe must be
(monla.cd. The man was very pale and
fain;, and preparations were made to chic
|oorm Lin. He gave one gasp. and
Eei
Perhaps the wound was not the direct
a,se of his death. 1t may be that fright
Killed him. Many such cases have been
,oored.
Lieutenant Colonel George Lewis. of
|he Twelfth Connecticut, was wounded in
bus Of the assaults of Port Hudson in
une, 1868. 4 grape-shot went through
is breast. lie was laid aside to die, but,
pn:nuins TO breathe after some days, he
as sen! down TO New Orleans with other
onnded. There, at one of the large hos
(a's, lis death was regarded rs merely q
lesion of time, too. But he fingered on,
tie most unaccountable manner. 1t
sinally thought that he might live to
lone: At any rate it was worth trying.
sssa Voyages improved him; he grew
taat home; got up and walked about;
hned to duty, and in October; 1864, was
hoseback commanding his regiment at
ttle of Cedar Creek; and when last
nd of him, some ten years ago, he was
lie in Connecticut-if not as we'll as
he wound that took me from Port Hud-
to the st. James Hospital Mt New Or
hs was received June II. Three days
lier Corporal Clinton Medbury, of my
ppany, while out with working party,
struck by rifle-ball which passed
oush both his shoulders. His wound
reported mortal, and he was sent down
river.
he same day that I reached the hospi-
Medbury walked in to my ward to see
One arm was in sling and he looked
e; but he said he felt pretty we'll, and
no difficulty in walking about. asked
Of the surgeons about him, the next
he said the wound looked serious; but
man felt SO well that he had good hopes
bin.
or three or four days longer Medbury
tlnued to improve to oil appear
es; walked about, talked, laughed, and
not the least idea of dying. Then, in
hour, his strength failed; he took to
bed, grew delirious, and died in day.
os! mortem examination showed that
OF his lungs had been pierced by the
ct. Death was inevitable from the
pom the next cot to mine ct the St.
hes lay Captain Carter, of the Fourth
eonsin. While out in front Of the en-
; W works rk with his company. in the as
OF May 9th, trying TO get past the
sH' lelled trees, and other distractions
mad been placed before the fortifica-
s. ,musket-ball struck him below the
and, taking spiral course round the
came out near the ankle, making six
Ffent wounds. He was perfectly help
ana the surgeons had not discovered,
me time l left, whether any bone was
le ,a' The fate of the victim of this ex-
olnary wound never learned.
ae former Colonel of the same regi-
General Halbeft E. Paine, had an
nsnce before Port Hudson such as
lew men could survive. He charged
u mead OF his brigade on the 14th. aud
y, me charge was repulsed, he lay un-
t.. Tue hostile works with hundreds of
- sorely wounded and unable to move.
Unopened before sunrise; and all that
stlhg day he lay there, suffering tor
70 mat cannot be conceived, while
~ d'ed around him. Several of his
we're killed or wounded while trying to
: up to where he lay with o canteen of
u a.. When at last brought off under the
Wy cover of darkness, after fifteen
) 81 that unutterable agony, it was
~ mat he must suffer amputation Of
=. And the man lived through it all
iepfesented the Milwaukee district in
s .sss' and lbelieve is alive to-day.
s shsans through the great hospital at
d's'er, Va, in December, 1864, l con-
with one Of the "convalescents. !"
o as caTalryman; had been surprised
,ba or TWO others by Mosby:s men, dur
ead previous campaign, shot, and left
w. "ul-snot. he said, after he had sur
, Wo And what, would tho reader be-
b mHs The wound, inflicted by car
"h weighing more than one ounce,
ra Iu1cn this poor fellow was at last
NJ . :. The ball had entered the
~ 'ne mead above the ear. had pene-
W., ,ne cavity-and there it was! No
Y - i''a discovered it; if tho man lives
ne carries that ball in his brain.
~, cases are utterly in defiance of all
Tba experience, and Of all probabili-
IN. es coAtounded and humbled the
re ' Ia ana taught them how very little
t,,,o "n ever know about that wonder
NJ; The human body.
Of '",ss .,asslppi steamboat in the sum-
kimo1 oTp', when the fighting was over
cha saw o mitldla-aged Colonel
N'eAs were hollow and SCARED on